The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-04-22
DUR TREASURE

sigh,
a could weep positively weep" 1
said, aard think tears at this iunct-
snre Of our domestic life would not be
/ nnmaniy.'
Are you making sport OF mey"
qneried Evelyn, my wife, sternly.
NO, far be it from my thoughts to
4 intrude any ievity upon an occasion
I oi this kind responded gravely,
latter the h.ieart.rending, blood-cur-
ding. hair bleaching and purse.reduc.
Ing experiences which we have under.
gonesince theday we flew from theills of
\ boarding house life to those we knew
not of; or, in other words, when we
Jumped from thefryingpaninto the fire
TO use a classic quot and be-
/ gan to study the momentousg girl ques-
tion Of the day, with at least fourt, n
bellies Of the kitchen asspecimens, |
will leave it to any nnpresudiced per-
i son TO say, if it is not an occasion for
tears, sweet tears, when ] hear my
wife announce that our fifteenth ac-
\ quisition Is q treasure" "
That sentence was as long as"
The list Of our numerous hired girls
4 deficiencies" ventured, as my wife
hesitated for comparison, ''for, as
the snythological historical long lane
that has no turn, which | began to
think We had found, my dear; q lane
y In which we were driven straight ahead,
/ over chaoms and powders, by an
v army OF merciless and unrelenting do
{ mestics, each armed with some dis
B tinctive, and destructive, and purely
Y Individual vice. :,
Ice, Johnl, repeated my wife, who
/ ii verY choice in her selection OF words;
ii think you mean faults, dear, not
vices. That il not nice word to APP
ply to a won,anl and you must re.
member that Ill those girls, dreadful
they proved to be, were women
like myself
Were theyP,' I cried, "were they,
! indeed, Evelyn" and / laughed a
wild and think mocking laugh, asI
\ continued, 81 have been laboring un-
der the impression that they were
neither men nor women, neither
beast nor human, but were ghouls.'
II yoh announce them to be women
like yourself, Evelyn, Unjust believe l
!. was mistaken, either in my former
I impression OF them, or my present im-
( preston Of you.
.John!'' calculated Evelyn, Il do
believe you are just little insane, a
i monomaniac as it we're on this sub
iect ofservant girls. What does make
you 60 on so?'
Because they went on 80, my dear.
began to think they were the living
representation Of Tsnnyson's brook.
Men might live and men might die,
i but they went on forever. A mono
maniac, indeedl Had not been en-
dowed by nature with remarkable
{ q very remarkable brain. Evelyn
you would now have q raving maniac
Or a driveling idiot for a husband, MS
q aconsequepce of seven months expe-
! rience in housekeeping"
I / thought heard my wife mutter
1 something about the latter being very
near the case now, but ignored it
and proceeded.
"Juust cast your minds eye back
ward, Evelyn, and on the wings Or
I no, on memory's horse car would be a
more fitting Eiinile let US go and re-
view the past, the sad, sad past
4 HOh, what is the use of wading
through heaps Of dead ashes or raking
. IN old troubles2" interposed Evelyn.
Grhey wSre bad enough when we had
to live through them. Now they are
past let them lie. This is my theory
81 life, and letsus rejoice in our bright
/ or present.
saBut it will make our present shine
with the greater glory to recall that
dark and atormy past. mine Evelyn.
1t will make our Mollie seem even q
rarer treasure to place her side by
side with those grim and chastity crea'
+ lures who brought us such hours o.
misery. Dost remember Hannah?"
~ dost, responded Evelyn, falling
into my vein, as she always did soon
or orr later, thus proving true the poets
assertion that 'sas the husband. sc
the wife is. " II
II dost. but she didn't. She scornet
such mental duties and sougth for he
true sphere between the tnttered GOV
eYE Of dime novels, while the dish wa
ter crew cold with despair waiting tt
be used.
But finally she got up and busted
because you complainsa, did she not!'
'oh, yes, before breakfast on Mon
day"
ma who came next, believe.
.sYes, the dove-eyed gazelle whom
we both felt confident would suit u
i at sight, and whose chief taplt seemed
to be q dreamy Observation-Disclosures
An absent mind dedness which cause'
her to put the teacups on for break
fast, and to place the creamer ant
Il ter urn invariably before the baby
piste, and which rendered it neces
/ sary for her to be told three time
# each day, where each respectiy
member OF the family sat. /" !.
II have given great deal OF stud
y to that girls nbsent-mindedne EN
Il alyn. It was q curious case. 70
/ remember the day she called us t
dinner, and when We asked her wher
the wheats and vegetables wss
she said she had forgotten t
prepare them? Ialways thought he
3 mind was sort Of reaching put atte
The unattalnable asit were."
si.' Yes, / Thought 50, too, when
found her reaching up to the clothe
line for my best silk hose after ha
discharged her.
Well, you couldn't blam
her for wanting to lay q stoc
iin for e rainy day, my dear